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Fred Sokolow is best known as the author of a library of instructional books and DVDs for guitar, banjo, Dobro, mandolin, lap steel and ukulele. There are currently over a hundred of his books or DVDs in print, sold all over the world. Fred has long been a well-known West Coast multi-string performer and recording artist, particularly on the acoustic music scene. The diverse musical genres covered in his books and DVDs, along with several bluegrass, jazz and rock CDs he has released, demonstrate his mastery of many musical styles. Whether he's playing Delta bottleneck blues, bluegrass or old-time banjo, 30s swing guitar or screaming rock solos, he does it with authenticity and passion. Born in Los Angeles September 14, 1945, by the early 1960s Fred was well known in the California bluegrass scene, playing with Jody Stecher, Brantley Kearns, Sandy Rothman and Eric Thompson. Relocating to Berkeley, he toured and recorded with a hippie rock band throughout most of the 60s, the Bay Area-based Notes From the Underground (Vanguard Records). In the early 70s Fred performed with R&am

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BY BLAIR JACKSON| FROM THE WINTER 2023 ISSUE OF UKULELE

By the time Fred Sokolow produced his first ukulele instructional videos and books during the first decade of the 21st century for Jim Beloff’s Flea Market Music ukulele empire, the L.A.-based multi-instrumentalist had been churning out successful lesson vids, methods, and songbooks for more than 30 years, teaching technique for banjo, guitar, mandolin, dobro, lap steel, bass, and even autoharp for a wide range of styles, including rock, folk, blues, jazz, country, old-time, ragtime, and bluegrass. Sokolow was a fixture teaching music at workshops and camps, while also making time to bring his astonishing array of stringed-instrument skills to a variety of different groups and players. He recorded numerous albums of his own and as a sideman/bandmember for various folks, including Tom Paxton, Jim Stafford, Bobbie Gentry, and the great but tremendously underrated Ian Whitcomb (1941–2020)—a British-born SoCal transplant singer-songwriter-entertainer whose main instrument was the ukulele (which he played left-handed).

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Fred Sokolow

Fred Sokolow is best known as the author of a library of instructional books and DVDs for guitar, banjo, Dobro, mandolin, lap steel and ukulele. There are currently over a hundred and fifty of his books or DVDs in print, sold all over the world. Fred has long been a well-known West Coast multi-string performer and recording artist, particularly on the acoustic music scene. The diverse musical genres covered in his books and DVDs, along with several bluegrass, jazz and rock CDs he has released, demonstrate his mastery of many musical styles. Whether he's playing Delta bottleneck blues, bluegrass or old-time banjo, Hawaiian lap steel, 30s swing guitar or screaming rock solos, he does it with authenticity and passion.

Born in Los Angeles September 14, 1945, by the early 1960s Fred was well known in the California bluegrass scene, playing with Jody Stecher, Brantley Kearns, Sandy Rothman and Eric Thompson. Relocating to Berkeley, he toured and recorded with a hippie rock band throughout most of the 60s, the Bay Area-based Notes From the Undergro